Christmas is always a special time, a time spend with family, friends and loved one. This Christmas was spent with friends from home - Lily, Helen, Anda - at Anda's home in Boyanup, a small town down South, about 17 km from Bunbury. Lily, Helen and I took the Australind down to Bunbury after work. The journey took 2.5hrs but it was a pleasant one. Sat next to Emily, a young girl from Bunbury who was on her way home to celebrate Christmas with her family.Had an interesting conversation with her - whole trip too! Anyway, left Perth station at 5.55pm and reached Bunbury at 8.20pm and thanks to daylight savings, it was still light when we reached there. Anda came to pick us up and that is where the Christmas adventure started.

We had Christmas lunch with the Suttons - Aileen, Robert and little Alby.Robert brought a ham and a pavlova (an Aussie desert) and we had a good lunch. Later we went to visit Theresa who lives in Eaton. Theresa is also from Sarawak, but have been here for many years now.

Boxing day was hot day indeed and guess where we went? The beach! Forrest Beach I think the name is. Robert put up a tent so that we could protect our skin from the hot sun. But before that we had a little gift opening session, and look at the happy faces receiving the gift they wanted :-)

Nicolas, Anda's hubby came home from work the next day so that means more places to visit :-)

Went down to Bunbury for post Christmas shopping, had a drive down Ocean drive and then had dinner at One Thai Restaurant, reported to be the best Thai restaurant in Bunbury. Next day we drove down to Harvey and had lunch there before coming home to have dinner with the Suttons, our last dinner at Boyanup.

All in all it was a great Christmas. Lily and Helen went back to Malaysia on Saturday and I sure miss them. I miss the conversation, the company and most of all the laughter. Not only did I spend the most festive season of the year with good friends, I also got to made new friends.